Jennifer Lopez says break-ups are not failure
Los Angeles, July 1 (IANS) Actress-singer Jennifer Lopez has a different take on separation and break-ups. She doesn’t view break-ups as a “failure”.
The actress-singer, 56, who finalised her divorce from actor Ben Affleck in 2025, insists she’s developed a philosophical attitude towards her love life, describing break-ups as a “launchpad” rather than a failure, reports ‘Female First UK’.
Speaking on the Subway Takes talk show, Jennifer said, “Breakups are not a failure. I honestly feel like it’s a launchpad into your next best self. We should have a party when we break up”.
She went on, “People should say, ‘You broke up? Congratulations’ because one, you made a decision. Two, it was probably the best thing for everybody”.
As per ‘Female First UK’, JLo believes the person who is broken up with often ends up as the “winner”.
The singer, who has previously been married to Ben, Marc Anthony, Cris Judd, and Ojani Noa, said, “If you go around your life and you’re breaking hearts … you’re the loser”.
Jennifer also thinks break-ups create some important life lessons, as she said, “I just feel like the biggest growth spurts I’ve had emotionally, mentally, psychologically have always come from a heartbreak. And that’s not just in romantic relationships, that’s in work heartbreaks, all of it. It’s the only time you dig. You’re like, ‘What the f*** happened? How do I do this? Why do I keep doing this? Or why didn’t that happen? What could I have done better?’ You change yourself”.
Meanwhile, Brett Goldstein recently hailed Jennifer as a “phenomenal artist”. The 45-year-old actor stars alongside Jennifer in Office Romance, the Ol Parker-directed romcom film, and Brett heaped praise on his co-star, describing Jennifer as “extraordinary”.
Brett, who is best known for playing Roy Kent in Ted Lasso, the hit Apple TV series, told Extra, “I think she is a phenomenal artiste”.
“I think it is extraordinary to do as many different things as she has done at the level that she has done them with the success that she has done them and how it seems to transcend time, and you know, you forget how many f****** bangers she has in her catalogue”, he added.
–IANS
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